Chartreuse 'Switch It On, Switch It Off' by Jacek Zmarz
Rob Ulitski - 22nd May 2023
Jacek Zmarz directs a dreamlike promo for Chartreuse, which sees a handful of characters each wrapped in their own mini narratives, wondering around a mysterious forest. .Â
The video for Switch It On, Switch It Off is built around the central image of a parachutist who hasn't quite stuck his landing, presented as an interwoven montage of surreal dreamscapes, connected by a sense of whimsical wonder.Â
"The video is inspired mainly by some Tarkovsky films and a little cottage that I visited a couple times as a kid," Zmarz mentions. "The image of the parachute diver was always there for me when listening to the song, and him getting carried away became the central point on which we built the rest of the video.
"I love the song's musical fluctuations and lyrics that sometimes felt like an internal monologue, and I wanted the video to feel like an exploration of these types of private and tender moments, things that can run away in your head until something happens in the real world and snaps you out of it."
Rob Ulitski - 22nd May 2023
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Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Jacek Zmarz
- Producer
- Liza Lewis
- Production Company
- Papaya Films
- Executive Producer
- Pilar Muro
- Production Assistants
- Gabi Ardiles, Luke Hoffman
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Owain E. Morgan
Editorial
- Editor
- Jacek Zmarz
Grading
- Colour Producer
- Dylan Bolister
- Colourist
- Tash Hicks
- Colour grade company
- CT
Commission
- Label
- Communion Records
- Management
- Unshaken Mgmt.
Rob Ulitski - 22nd May 2023